Topic: Colored Coins and Coinprism takes Bitcoin to a whole new level - page 9. (Read 11181 times)

So for clarity, the buyer destroys the coin upon taking possession of the apple? or only after the apple has been eaten?
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or do they just keep both apple and coin and who cares if the apple has been eaten, we're not buying it back.

When the apple is eaten, the counterparty assigns it to another apple or recolors it.

Question:

I'm a farmer and have 100 apples. Am i correct in that I can issue 100 shares for my apples?

When I sell an apple colored coin what happens to the coin when the apple is eaten? Does the time-stamp just act like a receipt?

Is there a white paper that explains the colored-coins accounting protocol that you can link us to?

EDIT: found it myself: https://github.com/OpenAssets/open-assets-protocol/blob/master/specification.mediawiki

One of the most exciting technologies that build on top of Bitcoin is called Colored Coins and it launched Today with Coinprism, a web based wallet that brings Colored Coins and the Open Assets open source protocol to life.

Colored Coins allows users to take small fractions of bitcoins and add a secondary value to them. In practice this lets people create new assets and use Bitcoin's network to secure and trade these assets. This simple idea opens up a wide range of possibilities.

For example you can start a company and let Colored Coins represent the ownership of the business. Your investors can trade their Colored Coins representing your business easily as easily as if they were sending bitcoins.

Exchanges can create Colored Coins dollars that will represent real dollars and people will be able to send each other these dollars easily to avoid any possible volatility of Bitcoin. Today sending fiat currencies is expensive, restrictive and/or slow. Soon it will cost as little and will be as fast as sending Bitcoins.

Colored Coins can also represent precious metals, property and can be used for marketing purposes by multinational companies that need a frictionless global currency that works online and in mobile apps.

How does Colored Coins affect Bitcoin?

Colored coins make Bitcoin's network and bitcoins themselves more valuable because it adds a significant new functionality.

Widespread use of Colored Coins would have two main effects on Bitcoin:

• Increase in demand for bitcoins, because you have to have BTC in order to manage and send your Colored Coins around.
• Increase the number of small BTC transactions. This will put a pressure on the Bitcoin network, but it will also generate more income in fees for miners.

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